BOY IN CONCRETE MIXER
Narrow Escape From Certain Death
(New Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE, November 15.
A contractor's second thoughts as he put up his hand to switch on the power to his concrete mixer today saved a child from being chopped to pieces. He found a little boy in the mixer The contractor, Mr A. Dahm, who is constructing concrete paths in the Mangapapa Slate housing block homes, remembered as he was about to throw the switch that a few minutes before some little children had been playing around the truck on which the concrete mixer is mounted. He walked round the truck to make sure and there inside the mixer was a little boy. This concrete mixer is not one of the usual revolving drums, but is a big steel trough in which steel blades like the beaters of a lawnmower. but much bigger and with 60 horsepower motor to drive them, revolve to mix the concrete.
It seemed that some of the other children had pushed the child into the trough of the mixer before running away.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19571116.2.165
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28436, 16 November 1957, Page 15
Word Count
180BOY IN CONCRETE MIXER Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28436, 16 November 1957, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in